Lawsuit against Bridgeport Board of Education, Commissioner Pryor and Paul Vallas gets more coverage - Wait, What?

Lawsuit against Bridgeport Board of Education, Commissioner Pryor and Paul Vallas gets more coverage - Wait, What?:

Lawsuit against Bridgeport Board of Education, Commissioner Pryor and Paul Vallas gets more coverage

by jonpelto

The Hartford Courant has added to the growing media coverage of the lawsuit about the Bridgeport Board of Education’s illegal contract for Acting Superintendent Paul Vallas.

As the Courant reports, Attorney Norm Pattis, who brought the lawsuit the led to the Supreme Court ruling that the Malloy Administration’s attempt to take over the Bridgeport School System was illegal, has filed a new case laying out the reasons that the contract given to education reformer extraordinaire, Paul Vallas, is also illegal.

Pattis told the Courant, “The legislature has determined that the superintendent must meet certain requirements…Bridgeport has been winking at them for a year now and Mr. Vallas thinks he deserves the wink. Bridgeport parents want to know why the rule of law isn’t good enough for their kids.”

Paul Vallas is not certified to be a superintendent in Connecticut.  A new state law, written for Vallas, allows Stefan Pryor, the Commissioner of Education, to waive that certification requirement if Vallas successfully completes a probationary period and